Mastering Diabetes: A Comprehensive Guide to Carbohydrates and Your Health

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Coming up on this episode of the
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise podcast.

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So what are the, how are the three
different food groups broken down?

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Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

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Welcome to the Healthy, Wealthy,
and Wise podcast with Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD, where the doctor
helps you unlock your full potential by

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equipping you with tools and knowledge in
the areas of health, wealth, and wisdom.

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Anchored in his experience
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physician, the surveyor for the.

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The joint commission, a former
mayor, and over 50 years of

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experience as a general surgeon.

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You've got questions.

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He's got answers.

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So let's get started.

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Here's Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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Good morning.

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This is Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw.

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We're delighted to have you
with us this morning today.

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We have an extraordinarily broad
and an interesting topic for you.

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We're going to talk about diabetes basics.

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What you need to know as diabetes basics,
what you need to know each month, we

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strive to provide you all distance
with mental, physical, and spiritual

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strength by giving you actionable advice.

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We consider the health and the mind of
the mind, body, and spirit paramount.

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As a single unit to help
you survive and to thrive.

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We appreciate your time with us.

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So sit back and enjoy the next
few minutes of our presentation.

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So our discussion today
is diabetes basics.

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What you need to know,
what you need to know.

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As always, um, these podcasts, uh, and
presentations are based on my 50 years of

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experience as a general surgeon, um, and
also my 75, 76 years of life experience.

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This is part of our medicine masterclass
series and our mission is to inform

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you about various Um, events and,
and information that we think is,

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is valuable, um, we hope that that
information will then educate you and

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our definition of education is that it
changes behavior somehow, uh, within

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you and that that change in behavior
is number three, that it motivates

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you to help others and be a force.

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For good in today's society, uh,
these podcasts are based on my beliefs

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and my beliefs number one are that
life is about service to others.

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Number two, knowledge is power.

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And number three, leaders
can change the world.

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As always, we like to put up an outline,
um, and the purpose of the outline

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is to give you an idea about what
we're going to talk about, but more

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importantly, or as important to let you
know when, when we're just about done.

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We're going to talk about basic
physiology of glucose, um, and how

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it is involved in the disease or
a medical problem called diabetes.

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We're going to define diabetes for you.

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We're going to talk about the, what
I call the, the road to diabetes.

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Uh, that involves food, glucose,
insulin, cells, and energy.

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And we're going to talk about the
importance of all this in the normal

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functioning of the human body.

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Now, I purposefully like to use
redundancy, uh, in my presentations,

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and what that basically means is I will
say the same thing or the same facts,

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but I will say them different ways.

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And the purpose of this is to help you
to better understand what we're talking

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about better apply it to your life and
your, the work that you're doing, um,

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and, uh, to make it more profound and
more interesting to you as time goes on.

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So when we look at food, just basic
food, it's important to understand

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that the most important purpose
of food is to provide energy.

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Well, the body and the food does
that by providing energy for

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the body at the cellular level.

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Okay.

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Let me say that again,
food provides energy.

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For the body at the cellular level.

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Now there are over 3 trillion
cells in the body and so we'll,

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we'll get into that a bit later.

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But just keep that in mind.

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We're talking about food for once
you consume it, once you put it in

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your mouth until it gets to the cell,
um, and the energy that it produces.

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So let's take a step back.

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There are three basic food groups.

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Carbohydrates, protein, and fats.

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Carbohydrates, protein, and fats.

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We are going to be concentrating
primarily on carbohydrates

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today as we talk about diabetes.

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Okay.

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And when I say carbohydrates, I will
interchangeably use the word sugar or

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interchangeably use the word glucose.

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Carbohydrates, protein, and fats.

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So, glucose and sugar are carbohydrates
and vice versa, and that's the main

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of the three types of food groups that
we're going to be talking about today,

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particularly as it relates to diabetes.

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So, if you, when you sit down with
your family for a delicious meal,

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it is more than just eating, and
it is more than just physical.

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When mom and dad sit down with the kids
for dinner, um, usually it's a fun meal,

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uh, so not only does the food satisfy
you, um, nutritionally and physically,

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um, it satisfies you psychologically
and spiritually, I would add.

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So what food does is that it is able to
touch us on the three levels, physical,

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mental, and spiritual simultaneously.

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Simultaneously.

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And so what we want is that on
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that food to be maximum in its
operation and in its functionality.

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So what are the, how are the three
different food groups broken down,

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carbohydrates, proteins and fats?

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Let's start with fats.

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Fats are broken down into fatty acids
and glycerol, and they are primarily

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used, um, Um, repair parts of the
body, um, and to, to build cell walls,

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produce hormones, um, which all adds
to, or have important roles in the

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basic functionality of the body, okay?

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Protein, uh, at the same time
are broken down to amino acids.

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And these amino acids are very important
in building blocks for body tissue.

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It helps in repair of muscles,
organs, bones, skins, hormones.

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And then of course, our primary
food group that we're talking

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about today, carbohydrates.

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The carbohydrates are the quickest
food group to be digested, and to be

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digested and converted into body energy.

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So carbohydrates is the majority,
is the primary fuel source for the

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body, and the fastest fuel source.

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And indeed, when there are abnormalities
with this process with the carbohydrates,

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diabetes type 2 may be one of the results.

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So if we were to look at an anatomical
chart of the gastrointestinal tract

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of the body, we can see that when we
eat food that goes down through the

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esophagus into the stomach, The stomach
has enzymes which then break down the

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food into smaller building blocks.

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which then go into the intestines and
can then go into, uh, the bloodstream.

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So we want, when we look at diabetes,
there are basically two categories

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of diabetes, type 1 and type 2.

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Today, for our purposes, we're
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category 2 or type 2 diabetes.

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Type 2 is what 95 percent of patients
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Roughly about 5 percent may have
type 1, but for our purposes today,

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we will not be discussing type 1.

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And so, what we will do, for the
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us, is go through the process from
eating food to getting energy, uh, to

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mitigating the whole diabetes problem,
uh, so that, uh, these cells can

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then perform their normal function.

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Well, how many cells
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Think about that.

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There are over three trillion, with a T,
three trillion cells in the human body.

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Okay.

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200 different types of cells.

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Red blood cells, white blood cells,
nerve cells, skin cells, muscle cells,

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fat cells, bone cells, etc, etc.

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And the purpose of these cells
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energy, or I call functionality.

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Each cell has a unique function,
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its energetic activity keeps
the body functioning normally.

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So when we eat sugar or carbohydrates,
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down into sugars, the purpose is to
to get the glucose into the cell, and

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the purpose of glucose in the cell
is to provide energy for that cell.

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Now, are there different
types of carbohydrates?

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I said that when I say carbohydrates,
I want you to think of sugars,

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but in reality there are
other types of carbohydrates.

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When I say sugars, sugars are
basically, uh, we're talking

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about what we call a simple sugar.

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A simple sugar is, um, um,
the carbon, hydrogen, monoxide

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structure, which is pretty basic.

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There are other types of carbohydrates.

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One type of the type of carbohydrates
are what we call starches.

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Okay?

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Starches are called complex carbohydrates.

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What does that mean?

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That means instead of having a single
strand of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen,

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um, um, starches have complex strands.

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There may be eight or ten different
strands attached together instead

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of one single strand because
starches are complex carbohydrates.

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Example of starches are breads.

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Cereal, pasta, potatoes,
vegetables, peas, and corn.

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And then a third type of
carbohydrates is basically fiber.

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Fiber are also complex carbohydrates.

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Um, and these are the type of
carbohydrates that you may,

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uh, uh, eat in fruits and
vegetables, beans, whole grains.

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Grains and plants.

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So other types of common
carbohydrates are bananas and

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berries, mangoes, legumes, juices,
sodas, fruit drinks, Um, et cetera.

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These presentations are based on, um, a
number of podcasts, um, that have been

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done over the last two years, uh, from
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Um, you can access, um, um, a number of
these podcasts on your normal podcast

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platform, or you can go to stsc.org, uh,
and click on, uh, ministry, uh, podcast.

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And you can find all of
them there in conclusion.

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Thank you so much for being with us today.

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And as always, be the change that
you want to see in the world.

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Thank you.

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Have a great day.

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and Wise podcast with Dr.

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William T.

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Choctaw, MD, JD.

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